We had a lovely view looking across to the golf course in those days on Middle Head, not the naval depot - over to Manly and in fact round around to Clontarf. The only disadvantage was that Balmoral oval was a garbage tip and this is mainly in those early days during the Depression years until… just before the war. And it was always smouldering, they used to burn it down there. The garbage was taken down by horse and cart and tipped down there and then burnt and the smell of it from the NorEaster which we would get and was our prevailing wind in the summer was pretty awful.

We had lots of bush fires too, hot winds in the summer…cause we had bush all around we had bush right up to our backyard…Coronation Avenue which is now down below…was just a bush track going down into Plunkett road; burning off of the rubbish used to start the fires.